Framed image
Framed image on wall
Verso
Stuart Davis American, 1892-1964
The Dance, 1912
Watercolour and pencil on paper
38.1 x 27.95 cm
15 x 11 in
15 x 11 in
1170001
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Provenance
Estate of Stuart DavisGrace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1980 from private collector NYC
Acquired from the above by JC Gallery
Exhibitions
New York, Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Infantry, International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913, no .814, n.p.(probably) New York, Sheridan Square Gallery, Watercolours and Drawings by Stuart Davis, 1917 (as The Garbage Contractors Ball).
Utica, New York, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; New York, Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963, 1963, no. 814, p. 117 & 187, illustrated.
Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Shock of Modernism in America: The Eight and Artists of the Armory Show, 1984, no. 113, p. 73.
London, JC Gallery, James Ward presents: American Modernism, 2023
Literature
(probably) W.G. Bowdoin, "Modern Work of Stuart Davis at Village Show," New York Evening World, 13 December 1917, n.p. (as Garbage Collectors Ball)."A Glorious Affair," Time, vol. 81, no. 14, 5 April 1963, p. 59, illustrated.
Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show, New York 1988, no. 814, p. 260.
Lowery Stokes, Stuart Davis, American Painter, New York, 1991, p. 124.
Ani Boyajian & Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 987, p. 476, illustrated,
This work represents a pivotal point in Davis’ career, as it was one of the five watercolour works he presented at the famous Armory Show in 1913. ‘The Dance’ showcases the Social Realism work he created through the Ashcan School in his early career, having trained under the famous Robert Henri.
During the Armory Show, Davis observed some of the other works presented, including works by European artists such as Picasso, which inspired him to develop his style into a new, mature way of painting. He pushed himself to develop a unique painting style through the abstract pronto-pop works he became famous for in later years. Many art historians know Stuart Davis as the American painter most influenced by Cubism.
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